It's in the Travellers interests to drag this out as long as they can, so they can try and get more concessions. They have already won that some plots can stay, and now all the fences and walls will remain.

They will eventually go, we all know that, and so do they. But they will milk it for all it's worth in the meantime, which was only to be expected. This is seen as a landmark case in Traveller history and it is only sensible to dot all the i's and cross all the t's.

I haven't seen any reporting of legal aid being applied for, although it wouldn't surprise me.

Nothing in the Englsih press so far. Looks like they have won some more concessions, we should know more later.

On the last day of the hearing of the judicial review application, Mr Justice Ouseley was told the council had agreed that some families could not be evicted by direct action.

Richard Harwood, representing site resident Margaret McCarthy, argued the council's original aim in taking direct action - to restore the whole site to a cleared, open state - was impossible to achieve.

Dale Farm Solidarity member Jake Fulton said: "People are already flooding back, both travellers and supporters. The residents would continue to resist eviction

"We are expecting a big swell over the next couple of days and we'll be ready for when they come. "Of course we are going to try and appeal this decision but we don't know what's going to happen there. "We'll have to rely on the physical defences now that the legal ones have failed us."

The judge refused the travellers permission to appeal, but those in court said they would ask the Court of Appeal itself to hear their case. On Wednesday night, Candy Sheridan, vice-chair of the Gypsy Council, said she expected lawyers to ask the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal within two days.

The Council says sooner rather than later, but not before Monday. I think they are letting them have the w/e to let any go who voluntarily want to move out. There is also talk of a last ditch submission to the Court of Appeal, which might yet delay things further.

With all the millions of lost appeals the squatters and illegally present residents have made recently, and over the last year. I think the court should rule it's about time the courts ruled that "no more appeals will be accepted, heard or ruled on".

Still, we shall see?
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It's just been announced that the Travellers have been refused permission to appeal against the high courts decision, after todays latest hearing. So the evictions can now go ahead.

The supporters are using Twitter to muster support for a final stand off, and they say the site is in lockdown mode. But it looks like it is basically all over. I thought they might go to Europe but there is no word yet upon that.

The evictions started at 7.00am this morning (wednesday) amid senes of resistance and violence. Following intelligence received, that violence was certain, Riot police went in first via a rear fence to clear the way for the Baliffs. Two people tasered, and a number of arrests. Police now at the maingate on the inside.

At the moment there is a bit of a standoff, while they wait to gain access through the main gate. Officers have now begun removing protesters from the 40ft (12m) high scaffolding on the main gate. Several masked protesters have been taken away in handcuffs. About 25 protesters remain on the rampart and officers are removing them one by one.

The Council say they were offered alternative sites eslewhere but refused, they were also offered Council accommodation which they also refused. A number of fences have been torn down to gain access but the Council say they will reinstate them after the clearance, as they are legally allowed to remain.

Nobody wanted this state of affairs, but there was no alternative, it had to happen. I can see that it must be sad to leave somwhere where you have lived for 10 years, and your kids have friends at school, but the Travellers always knew they'd have to go eventually.

They say they have nowhere else to go, but I'd be very suprised if they hsdn't made plans weeks ago, to be somewhere else. We will see.

1. The Council should have been able to have offered reasonable local sites in Essex that were legal. Moving to Liverpool was not really a fair option.

2. The Judge should have stayed the eviction until suitable alternative accommodation was agreed.

3. The Travellers were "used" by protesters, who jumped upon their cause so that they could oppose authority and have a punch-up with the police, for their own ends, not on behalf of the travellers.

The Travellers simply had to go, if they hadn't, then the Planning laws in this country would have been in complete disarray. It was also a landmark case for other Councils in the same position elsewhere. It was not ethnic cleansing at all, that was their defence to gain public sympathy.

The simple truth is that the general public will accept genuine Romany Gypsies and their preferred lifestyle, but they are not hospitable to Irish Travellers because of the general disruption and petty crime that usually accompanies them.

The travellers said they were shocked at the level of violence and had always intended to leave peacefully.

Fourteen people remain in police custody out of the 39 arrested. A woman has been charged with a public order offence and 23 people have been bailed. Police revealed that none of those arrested were travellers.

The following is from the Dale Farm own web page.

Dale Farm has brought the ingrained prejudice against Travellers into public view, from constant rejections of planning permission, to hostile local authorities, to violent evictions. The true long-term impact of Dale Farm will be a movement of travellers and supporters to change attitudes so travelling people can live in peace and not be criminalised.

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